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I've been a knitter for about 20 years and have a degree in Communications Design. I've worked in various facets of the garment and fashion industry, and am naturally fascinated with form, function, materials, and math. Not a bad combination for a Garment Designer!

I love the Pacific Northwest and the great outdoors in general. I almost always wear hiking boots just in case an opportunity to use them arises. I also love to cook, make jewelry, and sew.

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I've just crossed the halfway point for the sleeves on hubby's sweater!

It's very weird going from knitting one large body to two small sleeves, and having to repeat the same round twice. So, I've had to tink a lot and haven't made as speedy progress as I'd like! They're just about long enough to reach his elbows...…

Since hubby and I have spent so many chilly mornings out on the lake recently, I had considered that maybe I should get him a nice sweater to wear under his jacket as another layer. And then I thought, DUH, I knit! I'll just make him one!

As it turns out, I'd bought yarn to make him a sweater several years ago, and never got around to it. Why? Because he's a lot bigger than me, and that is just a ton of knitting. At the time, I was still riding public transit, so lugging a big sweater… Continue

I love to volunteer and I love to be outside, and those two things coincide a lot in Oregon. Every year we pick a volunteer activity for Earth Day, and we also did the SOLV Spring Beach Cleanup this year!

I wasn't ever really a big fan of the beach, growing up along the Jersey Shore. There was sand and water, and that was kind of boring I guess.(not to mention me + sun = OW) But then I moved to Oregon and was entranced by the treacherous, rocky, geologically amazing coastline. I also… Continue

So, the hubster and I love to go fishing. Well, he loves fishing, I love having an excuse to sit on my kiester and knit all day! A couple of weekends ago, we decided to pack a lunch and head an hour away to a lake he used to fish with his dad. Well, in typical Northwest style, it was in the forties in the morning, though it was going to be in the upper 60's in the afternoon. So we dressed in layers. I had on my favorite hand-knitted alpaca sweater with a… Continue

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I have a question about Jon Gilliam's "Men's Texture-striped Raglan." In the instructions for Tunisian Knitting Stitch in the round it says "these two worked rnds will be referred to as 1 rnd of Tunisian st." Then in the directions for the body, it says "Work...2 rounds of Tunisian st..." Does that mean to work the 4 rnds? I can't get a good closeup of the sweater, so I can't tell by looking.

Hi Kerin, I am knitting the cable socks from the Ternion Knee-High sock pattern. I am at the point in the leg where I'm just about finished with rows 40-60 of the cable gusset. At this point the directions say to repeat rounds 41-60 to obtain desired height of socks. I'm assuming as we're not adding more stitches that they will fit around the fattest part of the calf the further up I go? These are for my daughter and she's 1000 miles away at college and cannot try them on! Thanks for any clarification you may have!

I'm knitting your Diatom Shawl. It was a little scary at first since I have not knitted lace before. I'm moving along slowly, but it's beginning to be easier. I'm on round 52. But I keep looking ahead and see round 61. I understand ssk, but I don't understand about putting it with the "first stitch of the round which was previously slipped." Could you give me some clue? I'd really appreciate it. I think this is fun to knit a diatom.

Hi, Kerin: I just wrote to you but I think I deleted it by accident - I still don't know how to navigate the website! In a nutshell, I love your "how to darn" tutorials but I must watch them at work with the volume off. I really want to learn this art. Any chance you could pen your instructions to paper (with photos) so I could carry them with me, read them, and practice them wherever I happen to be? I also suggested this to KP customer service. Thanks. Judy in AZ

I purchased the Fancy Feet kit and began working last night on my first pair. I cannot, for the life of me, understand the cast on and working in the round. I cast on 12 stitches, turned my work so that I could pick up another 12 stitches through the cast on. I'm missing something here...the next statement said "you are now working in the round." I don't get it--to me it looks like I am working separate rows off each side of the needle. It does not look like stockinette stitch in the round but rather 2 sides of garter stitch. Can you help me figure out what I did wrong?

I was just looking at this kit on the KP site and am thinking about ordering it. I was also going to order the needles; the pattern says it uses size 1(2.50 mm) in 32" and 60"-is this correct and if so will Knitpicks start selling 60" circulars? The longest you carry is 47", will this work? I don't want to order this until I know for sure what needles I will need. Thanks for the help :-)